Structural signatures of dynamic heterogeneities in monolayers of colloidal ellipsoids

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zheng, Zhongyu ^a,b   Ni, Ran ^c,d,e   Wang, Feng ^b   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^c   Wang, Yuren ^a   Han, Yilong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

COLLOID; HETEROGENEITY; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATIC RESPONSE; SUPERCOOLING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; COLLOIDAL ELLIPSOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DYNAMIC HETEROGENEITY; ENTROPY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84900010588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4829     Document Type: Article

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